I’m a Marxist-Leninist, I’m committed to building socialism in the real world, not trying to come up with a hypothetical scenario where management is superfluous. Factories work at the scale of hundreds to thousands, not 4 people living an idyllic life, and these factories have massive supply chains ingoing and outgoing. Management becomes necessary at scales like these, because coordination at such scales cannot be all horizontal.
factories are big and made of thousands of people and machines
Sometimes. For some things. Not always. Especially for simpler products with fewer parts!
A steel butt plug factory could convievably have a dozen or so employees and be perfectly fine, make lots of butt plugs. How many people seriously need to work on that? You’re either casting them or machining them, plus some finishing, maybe testing and packaging–and it’s a product that benefits from being fewer pieces. I just used butt plugs because it’s fun to say and ive seen sex toy factories and single piece metal thing factories, so it isn’t a complete ass pull when i think about how stuff is made.
You seem obsessed with these ideas you have in your head, with no attention to reality. You’re being very idealist for someone who claims not to be.
Again, you’re conceptualizing jobs=people. You’re shackled to capitalist abstractions and unable or unwilling to see past them. It’s incredibly frustrating because I have to restate every principle every time, and be really pedantic.
I’m a Marxist-Leninist, I’m committed to building socialism in the real world, not trying to come up with a hypothetical scenario where management is superfluous. Factories work at the scale of hundreds to thousands, not 4 people living an idyllic life, and these factories have massive supply chains ingoing and outgoing. Management becomes necessary at scales like these, because coordination at such scales cannot be all horizontal.
Project Cybersyn was a real, socialist, working system, comrade and it was based on the same principles as brain of the firm.
It was also an example of centralized economic planning and administration, too.
Nope, it was decentralized. Read up on the theory, dawg.
If you call that system centralized, then most anarchists want to establish a centralized system.
Tankies are like Christians; you’ve all read exactly one book¹, and decided that was enough and you know everything.
¹counting ‘capital’ as one, admittedly a much better one on every metric but entertainment value
Sometimes. For some things. Not always. Especially for simpler products with fewer parts!
A steel butt plug factory could convievably have a dozen or so employees and be perfectly fine, make lots of butt plugs. How many people seriously need to work on that? You’re either casting them or machining them, plus some finishing, maybe testing and packaging–and it’s a product that benefits from being fewer pieces. I just used butt plugs because it’s fun to say and ive seen sex toy factories and single piece metal thing factories, so it isn’t a complete ass pull when i think about how stuff is made.
You seem obsessed with these ideas you have in your head, with no attention to reality. You’re being very idealist for someone who claims not to be.
Again, you’re conceptualizing jobs=people. You’re shackled to capitalist abstractions and unable or unwilling to see past them. It’s incredibly frustrating because I have to restate every principle every time, and be really pedantic.